Download or read book Burning the Days written by James Salter and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-03-28 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the brilliant memoir of a man who starts out in Manhattan and comes of age in the skies over Korea, before emerging as one of America's finest authors in the New York of the 1960s. Burning the Days showcases James Salter's uniquely beautiful style with some of the most evocative pages about flying ever written, together with portraits of the actors, directors and authors who later influenced him. It is an unforgettable book about passion, ambition and what it means to live and to write.